This study was conducted by the Media Insight Project, an initiative of the American Press Institute (API) and The Associated Press NORC Center for Public [...]
Story 1. Pollution story Standard Version At-risk neighborhood now facing new health threat from toxic drinking water A toxic chemical has polluted drinking water at [...]
Moral Foundations Theory Questionnaire This survey used a battery of questions often used in academic studies to assess respondents’ inclinations toward values in Moral Foundations [...]
Cluster analysis: Four groups of Americans based on their responses to moral and journalistic values
Despite partisan differences, Americans’ attitudes about journalism are more complicated than a simple Democrat versus Republican divide. To better understand how values relate to views [...]
Half of the current decline in trust occurred before the widespread adoption of the public internet and so much news coverage moved online and or [...]
While the majority of our research looked at how moral foundations intersect with perceptions of core journalistic concepts and content, we also wanted to test [...]
To provide our own baseline for trust with respondents, we began by asking about their level of trust in the news media. We asked the [...]
The panel of experts in the working session included: Susan Benkelman – American Press Institute, Director of Accountability Journalism; Jenny Benz, PhD, – AP-NORC Center [...]
A core goal of journalism is to lift up underheard voices. Sometimes, the best way to do that is to give those voices a stage [...]
Borealis Philanthropy’s Racial Equity in Journalism Fund and the American Press Institute announced a partnership today to support publishers of color who want to explore [...]
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